Just a quick update on Fillip Frogs Fly Feast! We’ve gotten the basic game play coming together nicely. The Mosquitos are now attacking you in a very natural way and we are homing in on the menu designs. Below is a basic demonstration of the game play in alpha testing. As a fun bonus, here […]
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Keeper of Lost Things digital painting
Just a quick sketchbook update with the most recent digital painting character design I did and submitted to Conceptart.org’s forum challenge 350. Wips
Continue readingImpressionist Study
Today’s post is a impressionist portrait study. The Obama image is one I painted a while ago and I’ve been wanting to do a similar portrait ever since but wasn’t sure who to paint. With recent political events I decided a version of Putin would make a good counter point to the image. I think […]
Continue readingPencil Made Brush Set
The title of this post may be a little misleading. This is not a brush set of pencils. It’s a set of brushes that I’ve created for speed painting by using a HB pencil to draw the shape, then scanning them into Photoshop. I’ll be doing a speed painting with these brushes to post as […]
Continue readingDwarfs! Speed Paint and Process Work
The last two weeks I’ve been extremely busy but I wanted to make sure I took an hour here and there to keep working on my process and speed painting. I also took the opportunity to explore a pallet I’ve extracted from a Paul Bonner painting that I’m using for one of the book covers […]
Continue reading20 to 30 minute environments
This is just a series of 20 to 30 minute environments I’m speed painting to work on quick concept painting. All of these are similar but I’m hoping to develop more variety as I practice them.
Continue readingPainting from colors of photos of paintings
There is a common practice in digital painting these days of extracting the colors from a photograph in order to create a unified pallet. While this works quite well, as I’m been trying it I find it’s important to limit the amount of colors you pull from the photo to make sure the colors in […]
Continue readingHoliday Art
As we’re moving into the new year, I wanted to add a little blog post showing some of what we’ve been sketching over the holidays. I’m including a selection from Joshua’s 12 days of Christmas pin ups, and an image I did for the Imagine FX forum challenge “Bad Santa.” Kris Kringle and the Bah […]
Continue readingAll that glitters is not gold.
I’ve been working on a cover illustration for a young adult fantasy book and I got a piece of feedback I’ve heard before, and is absolutely no help to an artist what so ever. It was, “can you make the title more gold and less yellow.” Not that this is bad feed back. Clearly it […]
Continue readingQuartermaster Speed Painting Session
For our speed painting session this week, Josh and I decided to do a sci fi quarter master. Which has several definitions including an officer in charge of supplies, or a non com in charge of navigation. I wanted to do one delivering supplies, and I hated everything I did for the first 40 mins […]
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